Improvement in bridle attachments



s. s. CUMMINGS. I 'BRIDLE ATTACHMENT. 'No. 189,341. Pate nted'Apri110,1877.

WITNESSES: I INVENTUB J momma S NPEYERS. PHOm-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES snron s. CUMMINGS, or TURNERS PoI 'r, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- PATENT OFFICE.

THIRD HIS RIGHT TO WALKEB O. STEVENSON, OF SAME PLAQE.

IMPROVEMENT, IN BRIDLE ATTACHMENTS- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189,341, dated April 10, 1877; application filed February 17, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SE'roN S. CUMMINes,

sponding parts.

My improvement relates to a bridle of novel construction for training and taming horses; and it consists in the combination of brace and guide-reins, neck and crupper straps, sur- 7 cingle, and collar, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawing, A is the ordinary headstall. ais the throat-latch, and b the ordinary guiding-reins. B is the collar, and U the surcingle. c is a neck-strap, that is attached to the headstall, and runs through a loop on the upper portion of the collar B, and is attached to a ring, d, on the upper portion of the surcingle.

The crupper-strape is attachedto the crup- 'per in the usual way, and is also attached tothe ring d.

D is a brace-rein, that buckles into the bitrings, and runs through-a ring, f, attached to a strap, 9, that is secured to the neck-strap c, and thence it runs through ailoop, k, that is part of the collar-strap B, and is fastened to the lower portion of the surcingle.

All of the straps represented and described for one side of the bridle are duplicated on I the other side,.both sides being exactly alike. The various strapsv of which the bridle is composed are provided with buckles or other convenient means for lengthening and shortening, to meet the requirements for horses of different sizes, and for the purpose of adjustment for different positions of the same animal.

By means of my improved bridle, wild and vicious horses may be readily tamed, and by it the gait of gentle horses may be improved.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The headstall A, neck-strap c, strap g, having the ring f, the brace-rein D, the martingale E, collar-strap B and its loops, the surciugle 0, having rings dc, combined and arranged substautially as herein shown and described.

. SETON S. CUMMINGS.

Witnesses:

\ WM. HENDERSON,

O. M. INABUIT. 

